Kevin de la Isla O'Neill

Kevin is a professional and passionate multi-award winning filmmaker with experience in film & television production, advertising and distribution. He has learned first hand from shadowing established directors on set such as: Andrew Dominik, Jim Sheridan, Ken Girotti, Julian Jarrold & Agnes Merlet and has had directing master-classes with Mike Leigh, Luis Mandoki and Mark Romanek. He has over 20,000 hours of film and broadcast editing experience & was mentored in film editing by Emma E. Hickox. He is an Irish and Mexican citizen fluent in both, English and Spanish languages. His background also spreads to creative development, on-air promotion, event panel moderating and speaker alike. He is an experienced team leader with limitless ambition and a drive to taking the creative lead whilst inspiring others, listening and collaborating to achieve the best possible result for the project at hand. He is a multi award-winning director, producer and editor with over 16 years in the business and a proven track record in conception, production and delivery of content. He has successfully created and managed crowd-funding campaigns for feature films. Extremely motivated creative who is passionate about the whole process, enthused by exigent projects and briefs and constantly full of ideas. In 2013 he spent 5 weeks in Africa co-producing, directing and editing a 4-part TV-documentary series commissioned by EWTN on the life of the Pallottines. This series aired globally on November-2015. He produced, directed and edited his multi award-winning debut feature film "The Hit Producer", which opened in Irish cinemas on October 2015 and had an extended release on January 2016 through Omniplex and had a theatrical distribution in Mexico through Cinemex in 2018. He recently directed the RTE/Filmbase short film "Acorn" for which he won a Kinsale Gold Shark award for Best Director.